Intel has become a major backer of the LibreOffice open-source productivity suite, joining the advisory board of the The Document Foundation and distributing the Microsoft Office alternative.Just a few days after The Document Foundation (TDF) released LibreOffice 3.

The Document Foundation has pushed out the first release candidate of LibreOffice, its Oracle-free fork of OpenOffice.LibreOffice RC1, which became available for download on Sunday, is the near-final release of the open-source productivity suite.